Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:35:30 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick:
> > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the
> > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected.  Let me try
> > to explain:
> > 
> > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was
> > positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of
> > the real estate in the left monitor only.  If the application was in the
> > right monitor, it would maximise to occupy only the right monitor.
> > 
> > Also in KDE4.5 moving an application window near the ends of a monitor
> > would snap to the edge even if this was the vertical edge between the
> > two monitors.
> > 
> > In KDE4.6 application windows maximise across both screens and there's no
> > snapping into the edge at the middle.
> > 
> > Finally, I can no longer set different wallpapers for the two monitors.
> > 
> > Is there some setting I could use to fix this?
> 
> I had the same problem. You have to enable the xinerama use flag, even
> if you do not intend to configure xinerama.
> 
> euse -E xinerama && emerge -av --reinstall changed-use world
> 
> will do the job.

Have they changed the use of this flag in KDE4.6?  I don't having it set 
before ...

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out tomorrow, because it's getting late 
now.

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Regards,
Mick

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